Excellent opinion piece by Yechiel Eckstein: A new definition of tolerance
Excerpt:
BEFORE WE can really begin relating to other views and ideologies, we ought to feel strong in our own traditions and beliefs. And, before we can do that, we must stand for something. For if there is nothing to stand for, there is nothing meaningful enough for us to die for. Without commitment to an absolute in a person's life there is no backbone to that life. It all becomes a mush of relative thinking, which, I believe, does not enable an ethical society to emerge. The United States has been burned by this definition of tolerance.Posted by joelfuhrmann at November 13, 2002 05:04 PM